Hair-fastener.



No. 819,927. PATENTED MAY 8, 1906 P. B. ROGERS & O. H. DITTMER.

HAIR FASTENBR.

APPLIOATION FILED 0017.18, 1905.

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HAIR-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application filed October 18, 1905. Serial No. 283,823.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK B. ROGERS and OHARL s H. DITTMER, citizens of the United States, residing at MadduX, in the county of Choteau and State of Montana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hair-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is a hair-fastener, and has for its object to provide an article of this kind which will not work loose and which will effectively serve to hold the hair in position; and to this end the invention consists in a construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation showing the fastener open and ready to be inserted into the hair. Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section, showing the fastener closed.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the fastener comprises two substantially U- shaped pins, (indicated at and 11, respectively,) the points of which when the device is in use are presented toward each other and enter the hair from opposite sides. These pins are connected by a third pin, (indicated at 12,) which latter pin has a barbed point 13 and a head 14 of any preferred design. The bow 15, connecting the prongs of the pin 10, is formed with an enlargement 16, having an opening 17, through which the pin 12 extends. The bow 18 of the pin 1 1 has a socketpiece 19, which is properly shaped to receive the point 13 of the pin 12. A spring-catch or other suitable device 20 is provided which engages the point 13 to prevent withdrawal of the pin 12 when the fastener is in use.

The fastener is applied by withdrawing the pin 12 from the socket-piece 19, which separates the pins 10 and 11, as shown in Fig. 1. The pins 10 and 12 are then inserted in the hair from one side and the pin 11 from the opposite side. The point 13 of the pin 12 is pushed into the socket-piece 19, in which it is locked by the catch 20. By this arrangement the pins are securely fastened together and prevented from working out of the hair, and thus effectively serve to hold it in proper position. The pin 12 is formed with a collar 21 to prevent its withdrawal from the pin 10.

Having thus described our invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

A hair-fastener comprising a pair of forked pins, the prongs of which are presented toward each other, the head of one of said pins having an opening, and the head of the other pin a socket, and a pin slidably mounted in the aforesaid opening, and extensible into the socket, and removably secured therein.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK B. ROGERS. CHAS. H. DITTMER.

WVitnesses:

JAMES R. BAKER, EMMA B. SooTT. 

